Gayatri Spivak is a leading figure in the humanities, and her work is foundational in postcolonial studies. Her writings include "Can the Subaltern Speak?", A Critique of Postcolonial Reason,Outside in the Teaching Machine, The Post-Colonial Critic, In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, and an influential translation of, and introduction to, Derrida's Of Grammatology. In 2012 she was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.